Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clonamona Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonamona Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68805, -6.40291
- SMR number
- WX006-044002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a fold towards the bottom of an E-facing slope with the NW-SE River Lask c. 450m to the NE. There is a well (diam. 1.4m) with drystone-walling (H 1.2m) in an overgrown area that is the site of the possible ecclesiastical site (WX006-044001), but there is no evidence that the well was venerated. However, the townland name Clonamona is derived from Cluain na Manach – the meadow of the monks – and is recorded from 1594, confirming an ecclesiastical connection (Pers. com. Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 1 March, 2012
Amended: 16 July, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.